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Left for Lyons Lyons, Colorado on 10:05 train, went to Burlington Hotel Burlington Hotel, changed clothes and worked north on foot along a syncline , then to the east over an anticline. Many piñon jays Gymnorhinus cyanocephalus along syncline. After dinner started up S. fork of St. Vrain St. Vrain Creek, Colorado on horseback, horse from Cantwell’s Cantwell’s. On contact of Fountain with granite several chestnut backed bluebirds Sialia mexicana anabelae. Very hard work on high, steep ridges. Mapped about 12 square miles today. Reached hotel at 6 p.m., very tired. Several buzzards Buteo and sparrow hawks Accipiter seen.

Lyons Lyons, Colorado, Oct. 2, 1908 October 2, 1908

Started for Rattlesnake Park Rattlesnake Park on horseback at 7 a.m. At Little Thompson Little Thompson Creek, Colorado Fountain rests on gneiss and all through the region up creek gneiss is interstratified with granite, though south-